When it comes to nutrition, there is no one-size-fits-all approach for Olympic athletes. — via healthing_ca
Boegman says she doesn’t suggest athletes count calories or have cheat days — she’d rather they eat a little bit of chocolate each day if it makes them feel good. The goal is to encourage a healthy and enjoyable relationship with food.
“When we visualize, we are able to activate a very similar response in the body physiologically as if we’ve actually physically done the task, so it counts as a form of practice,” says Cockle. “When an athlete gets better at managing their visualizations, they can throw in obstacles or challenges and fix it in their visualization. That way when it happens in real life, it feels like they’ve already dealt with it before.
Hall says a lot of mental preparation also has to do with motivation and learning to accept loss. He raced with Team Canada for 15 years and says there were about five races he was completely satisfied with.
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